Sean Penn Quotes

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Trust
  • Brain

• When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Home
  • Help
  • Food

• I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Friends

• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• For me, family has always come first.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Family
  • Me
  • Always

• If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Film

• I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • May
  • America
  • You

• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Real
  • Think
  • Words

• I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Think
  • Best
  • Ever

• What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Age
  • Sad
  • Find

• She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• My family is basically Gypsies - for real.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Real
  • Family
  • Basically

• I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Find
  • Watch
  • Addicted

• Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having 'Raging Bull' in my corner. I mean, imagine that? Just having Robert De Niro to play the trainer in the movie, that was fantastic.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • American
  • History
  • Movie

• What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Heart

• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Like
  • inspirational
  • Kiss

• Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • War
  • Man

• I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.

  

  Charli XCX

• I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • World

• I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • School

• Be patient; patience is a pillar of faith.

  

  Umar
  • Faith
  • Patience
  • Inspiring

• With Fred McDowell, I just love the way he articulates the notes. I'm hardly unique in that, but there's just something about that that I love.

  

  Bill Orcutt
  • I Love
  • Notes
  • Articulates

• Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Movie
  • Direct
  • Special Place